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remember - a good alternative to social media in the event of a collapse, and a good way to grow community in your local area, is to literally just go round your town and put up stickers about your day to day life and musings

It's not for #blackmastodon to solve the problems of the fedi

And the few that have been here (me, ro, melanie, alice etc etc) and tried --were left picking up pieces while other servers get to gallop into the Taylor Swift aesthetic moodboard of their dreams

Please. We got bills to pay

re: on burnout, succession plans, and starting projects 

@trysdyn A big part of why the previous incarnation of my discord had collapsed, I tried to top-down a system where it could run itself with little input from me, and I curated the community with the kinds of people who expect one person to do everything.

Lesson learned: Never build a community for Gamers™ they won't have your back unless they have something to personally gain from it.

re: on burnout, succession plans, and starting projects 

@trysdyn Advice I need to learn to put into practice myself.

on burnout, succession plans, and starting projects 

Speaking as someone who is extremely unreliable for any consistent task like running a community: If you're going to start something other people use, have both a permanent succession plan, and backups for your roles.

You may wake up one day and decide you don't want to do (or can't) this any more but people rely on your service.

You may run out of spoons for weeks but still have duties to perform, and forcing yourself to do them because there's no backup may bring you back the not wanting to do it any more.

You may end up incapacitated suddenly somehow and need to enact either plan, or both.

But more importantly, having those in place means if you're worried about burning out and giving up, at least what you build will continue if it happens. That alone can be a comfort.

I'm posting this more to give myself permission to start things I worry I'll stop more than anything.

tumblr trolling twitter 

Ok, I know Tumblr may still be Problematic™, but they're doing some S-tier trolling here

@heatherhorns People seem to think that social media platforms have qualities that are independent of the users that populate the platform, and I think it's a silly view.

There's still a lot of anti-black and persecutor communal-narcissist types floating around here, and some of them are instance admins.

my art, ec 

i actually drew this a month ago but neglected to share it here !

:sparkles_trans: :sparkles_trans: :sparkles_trans: :sparkles_trans:

just so y'all know i won't be at cohost or at mastodon so in case twitter ever meets a demise i will not find you on either of those platforms and if you don't want to follow me elsewhere we might as well be parting ways lol

my contacts: maple.pet/about

Fedi Meta, Subtoot 

Nope, not dealing with anyone associated with Nitecrew. You might as well tell me you endorse Monads, Elekk or Myasstodon.

twitter? why i took one look at the place and i thought they should've called it "litter"!

Hey fellow white people

If you're going to tone-police POC for talking about their own damn lives, have the courtesy to CW your remarks. "Privileged-ass mouthing off" would be appropriate, for example.

#AllToneCopsAreBastards

re: Fedi Meta 

This is still relevant. Until the owners of the following named instances come out and apologize for the damage and hurt they caused and enabled, they don't deserve an inch of trust from me.

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Fedi Meta 

I guess if you want my overall take as a former chud on the whole situation, the actions of Myasstodon, Elekk and Monads mirror that of the abusive patterns of behaviour that Gamergate took part in that drove women and PoC out of gaming.

To wit, the insistence that they, the abusers, are a minority while the victims speaking up are white is no different to NotYourShield being weaponized to drive a wedge in vulnerable communities. All it is is a distraction from the abuse that happened

re: ethics discussion 

@relee Such is the nature of subjectivity

re: furry art, hyper; very NSFW lol & multiboob 

@Russell I (Elisha) am gray ace, so I can totally get the appeal. I mean I got 16 boobs on myeby default, lol

re: furry art, hyper; very NSFW lol 

@Russell Now those are definitely fun proportions :D

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